II.  VLSI design

-VLSI Systems

-Nanoelectronics and Gigascale Systems

-Software Systems

-Grid computing

-Mobile Cloud Computing

-GPU / GPGPU

-Pervasive Computing

-Radiation hardened systems

-Low Power Architectures and Systems

-Low Power Software

-Bioinformatics

-Integrated Security Systems

-Visualization

-Biometrics / Biomedical

-Data hiding

-Blind Signal and Image Processing

-Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

-Massively parallel architectures

-Multithreaded architectures

-Fine-grain parallel architectures

-Many-core architectures

-Multimedia and Mobile processors

-Performance Evaluation and Workload Characterization

-Unique technologies (quantum well optoelectronic, biologically inspired circuits systems, RF and high frequency, etc.)

The Work in Progress session is devoted to the presentation of new and on-going research in computer architecture and VLSI design. The primary purpose of the WIP session is to provide researchers with an opportunity to discuss their evolving ideas and get feedback in the workshop.